Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important. It means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.
获得智慧是一种道德责任，它不仅仅是为了让你们的生活变得更加美好。有一个相关的道理非常重要，那就是你们必须坚持终身学习。如果不终身学习，你们将不会取得很高的成就。光靠已有的知识，你们在生活中走不了多远。
History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
The truth is never just one thing; it is always several things at once.